The Rolling Stones

These ancient rock and rollers never seem to stop and last year’s Glastonbury headline set was the pinacle of their impressive 50 year career.

Mick Jagger, Ronnie Wood, Keith Richards and Charlie Watts have a combined age of 278 years and the band still can’t get no satisfaction.

This New York rock band had a first wind from 1974 to 82 and then came back on the scene in 1997 - and are still going strong.

Debbie may be 68 but last night Blondie brought the NME Awards 2014 with Austin, Texas to a close by performing a career-spanning set including UK Number One hit singles ‘Call Me’ and ‘Atomic’ plus a cover of Beastie Boys’ ‘(You Gotta) Fight For Your Right (To Party!)’ after winning the Godlike Genius accolade.

Sir Paul McCartney

The 71-year-old keeps putting out acclaimed albums even in his seventh decade of making music.

He might be best known as one of the most creative songwriters in history stemming from his time a one of the Fab Four but the former Beatle shows no sign of letting up.

Led Zeppelin

Led Zeppelin were the greatest rock band in the universe: so loud, raunchy and virile they made the Rolling Stones look like Trappist monks; so epic, majestic and inventive they made The Beatles sound like choirboys.

But after they reformed for a one off gig in 2007 critics joked their most famous song should be renamed Stannah Stairlift To Heaven.

Fans disagreed they were past it and according to Guinness World Records 2009, the concert holds the world record for the “Highest Demand for Tickets for One Music Concert” as 20 million requests for the reunion show were rendered online.

Robert Plant, Jimmy Page and John Paul Jones, the three survivors of the Seventies’ heyday, are still making music today.

The Eagles

Formed in Los Angeles in 1971 by Glenn Frey, Don Henley, Bernie Leadon, and Randy Meisner. With five number-one singles, six Grammy Awards, five American Music Awards, and six number one albums, the Eagles were one of the most successful musical acts of the 1970s.

They split in 1980 but reformed in 1994 with a new line-up and are in the middle of a 77-date world tour.

The Who

Formed in 1964. Their best known line-up consisted of lead singer Roger Daltrey, guitarist Pete Townshend, bassist John Entwistle and drummer Keith Moon.

They split in 1982, then reformed in 1989 and then again in 1996 and have been going ever since.

The current line up includes Daltrey, 69, Townsend 68, plus various touring members including Zak Starkey - son of The Beatles drummer Ringo Starr.

David Bowie

The 67-year-old pop star has reinvented himself several times but his most recognisable incarnation was flamboyant, androgynous alter ego Ziggy Stardust who performed the glam rock single “Starman” and the album The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars.

He’s still making music and thanks to hit album lats year earlier this month became the oldest recipient of a Brit Award in the ceremony’s history when he won the award for Best British Male.

Aerosmith

They’ve been at it since 1970 fronted by 65-year-old Steven Tyler who has battled booze and drugs to keep making music and releasing albums.

Last year Tyler admitted that in his worst periods of drug use he took around £3million worth of drugs, and ‘snorted half of Peru.’